Rhododendrons 2014

[Steve Garvie]

Sounds an interesting form of Big Mac, I wonder if it is available for sale on this side of the Atlantic?

[Maggi Young]

Some great rhododendron photos ( and magnolias etc too) from the twitter pages of  The Himalayan Garden in Yorkshire 
   https://twitter.com/The_Hutts   

[ian mcenery]

Just a few shots from Caerhays not all rhodies. Caerhays is 100 acres of the finest early garden I know and famous for its unrivalled collection of magnolias. The garden is constantly being regenerated with many new plants added. Not surprising since the Williams family also own Burncoose Nurseries. The last is of a new named campbelli type whose name I forget

[birck j c]

Spring si here

Rh. strigillosum   &   Rh. sheriffii

full out

10 C here in copenhagen

birck

[birck j c]

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[johnw]

Sounds an interesting form of Big Mac, I wonder if it is available for sale on this side of the Atlantic?

Steve  - I'd bet Glendoick has grown seeds of that high altitude mac and have them for sale as well.

john

[Steve Garvie]

Steve  - I'd bet Glendoick has grown seeds of that high altitude mac and have them for sale as well.

john

I checked at the weekend -sadly they don't.

[johnw]

What a show there Jens.  That sheriffii is mighty dark.

I guess you missed that frost several nights ago that you worried about.

Seems we have plunged back into winter yet again.

johnw

[johnw]

Steve  - I'll email Steve @ the RSF and ask who in Europe sells it.

john

[Robert]

Back to our hot dry weather. 27C yesterday at our Sacramento Valley garden, maybe a record for the date.

All the following photographs are from our Sacramento Valley garden.

R. albrechtii is just finishing its bloom. About 2 meters tall now.

R. hyperythrum x williamsianum.

Azalea 'Angel Lace' - from Earl Sommerville. Nice, light fragrance.

R. austrinum 'Moonbeam'. For us, always the first of the austrinum group to bloom. Good fragrance.

[johnw]

Steve  - This just back from Steve at the RSF:

Hi John,

Glendoick sells the high altitude macabeanum, he just has to ask for NAPE#052.

Cheers,
Steve

johnw

[Steve Garvie]

Steve  - This just back from Steve at the RSF:

Hi John,

Glendoick sells the high altitude macabeanum, he just has to ask for NAPE#052.

Cheers,
Steve

johnw

That's great John.
Thanks for this!

[johnralphcarpenter]

Rhododendron eximium (or Rhododendron falconeri subsp. eximium).

[Robert]

Two azaleas and one dendrocharis hybrid from up the mountain at the farm.

R. reticulatum - Great scarlet fall foliage.

R. schlippenbachii

minus x dendrocharis - very compact, about 25-30cm. The bees are drilling holes through the base of the flowers. I hope that they don't take a permanent liking to it. 

[Maggi Young]

John Grimshaw, very much a "tree" man, who is self-confessed as not  the biggest fan of rhododendrons  is none the less a conscientious keeper of a wonderful collection the Yorkshire Arboretum, where he is Director.
He has tweeted this super picture of  "the fabulous, very rare Rhododendron lanatoides KW5971A flowering now in Ray Wood"



He has mentioned this plant before in his blog :
http://johngrimshawsgardendiary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/conserving-rhododendrons.html